Oliver v. Deen’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 156 · 1996
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Gutierrez v. Peters (1997), Ellis Henderson v. Michael F. Sheahan and J.W. Fairman (2000)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prison official's act or omission must result in the denial of the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]his case is about what the Constitution requires. Recently, in another prisoner case, Anderson v. Romero, 72 F.3d 518 (7th Cir.1995), we noted that “the Eighth Amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishments; it does not require the most intelligent, progressive, humane, or efficacious prison administration.” Mr. Oliver’s complaint seeks to involve us in the sort of “micromanagement” of a state prison that we deplored in Anderson .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hudgins v. DeBruyn“pose[] an unreasonable risk to his health, much less that he was denied 'the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.